Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
SIDEWALK PRATTLE.

Old winter is making its last lap
Nice weather several times day.
Read the revised church directory.
Send US your neighborhood news.
The snow is very neighborly-it stays
with us.
March and spring will be here next
week, sure.
Several young people are wearing
stiff necks.
A sermon on Fools at the hall next
Sunday evening.
February will soon March, and in two
months more April May.
Postmaster Gordon is on deck again
looking the worse for wear.
Young men should not attend private
parties without an invitation.
Crawl out of your holes. the back
bone of the winter is broken.
The town you live in is entitled to
your very best words In its behalf.
The Idaho city paper reports six feet
of snow throughout the Boise basin.
All the sick people are recovering
health and strength as spring opens.
The lowest mercury this week has
been 900 above zero; higest, 6O0 above.
Mrs. Scott returned home Saturday,
after an extended visit to the Atlantic
states.
A boxing match is on the cards for
Saturday night at the old Grangeville
saloon building.
Wednesdays chinook drifted the
snow so that the lanes in some places
are impossible.
Fifteen million dollars have been in
vested in cattle of all kinds in Idaho in
the last three years.
Shoshone county is $l55,000 in debt.
Before the Coeur d'Alene excitement it
was only $4,000 behind.
The winter term of the c. R. c. A..
closes to- day. but the school will con
tinue on until further notice.
all postmasters in this county are
authorised to receive and receipt for
subscriptions to the FREE PRESS.
Doug. Holton subscribes for this paper
to be sent to hts father, DIR. D. s. Holton,
Kerbyville, Josephine county, Ogn.
The weather, as topic of conversa-
tion and newspaper gossip, is played
out and too hackneyd for further use.
The chinook blew all day Wednesday
but turned cold towards night and
brought up three inches of fresh snow.
There has been much less sickness
than usual this winter on the prairie.
Probably the snow absorbs all the un-
healthy germs.
Sunday school in Grange hall every
Sunday morning at eleven O'Clock, ex-
cept on March 20, when they will be
held at ten o'clock.
DIR. Bibby's black team ran away last
Friday, and eventually collided with
Davis's fence, but without damage to
anything in particular.
Marshal Greene returned from the
north Tuesday, having been unable to
reach the Ceur d'Alene on account o
the big snow blockade in that region.
DIR. Bibby is suffering with something
like nervous congestion. He has many
friends who sympathyse with him. and
large number of patients who can
hardly spare him.
Notices of school elections or Other
matters pertaining to the welfare o
school districts in this county will be
advertised free of charge if the clerk
will take the trouble to notify us.
A man out of debt and in good healtl
with fifty dollars in his pocket is more
independent than the great majority o
hose who handle thousands of dollar
monthly and buy and sell on credit.
The citizens of HALEY gave our Franl
Fem a complete set of Motley's work
as testimonial of his efforts to preven
the division of Alturas county by tn
late legislature. Clough, Of Lemh
received an elegant gold watch ant
chain in the same service.
The boys wintering in Florence re
port fifteen feet Of snow in camp an
the few remaining houses are not vis
BILE. A bunch of them were showed !
by the last storm, and it took ther
, three days to build tunnel throug
, the snow to daylight. Altitude of tn
, camp, 6,285 feet above sea level.
Don't grumble. Don't contrive to g.
I hold of the bad side of everything,
q run up against all the sharp corners an
I disagreeable things. Half the strengt
spent in growing would often sct thing
|, straight. None of us ever found tn
Ia -..:xo a. -o uould Iiko H. and